Monday, February 04, 2008

Enhance Your Vocab with HK entertainment- Lesson 1

Who says you can't have fun while learning? Since I need to start studying for the GRE, I'm going to use HK entertainment to enhance my vocab, hopefully weekly or bi-weekly. If you have time, try a few examples on your own in the comments section. It'll help you, and it'll help me! You'll be surprise at how much easier you remember the words!

1.) anachronism- something out of place in time or history

Ex: Louis Koo's character, Hung Siu Lung traveling back in time from present times in A Step in the Past was definitely an anachronism.

2.) adulation- excessive praise, adoration

Ex: After Shirley Yeung's performance as Ka Yee in The Brink of Law, she had received much adulation from many viewers, for portraying a villain role successfully.

3.) kleptomaniac- strong desire to steal

Ex: Would you consider Tavia's family in The Academy kleptomaniacs since they often like to take steal things and resell them for profit?

4.) collusion - a secret agreement to get involve with fradulent schemes

Ex: The con men and women in The Price of Greed formed a collusion to trick rich women and take their money, even taking years to get their plans to succeed.

5.) Precarious - risky

Ex: The act of sleeping with Suen Bak Yeung, to get pregnant was definitely a precarious move on Yuk Ying's part in War and Beauty.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

lol..this is quite interesting lol it does sound easier to learn this way XD

Jadedreams said...

it's fun making these sentences, but sometimes it's hard to remember which series to use the word for lol

Anonymous said...

haha, good luck on your GREs! I in the mean time have to study for the MCATS..but I don't think I can incorporate HK entertainment with RNA and transcription..